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Multimodal classification of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21236349     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Effective and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as well as its prodromal stage (i.e., mild cognitive impairment (MCI)), has attracted more and more attention recently. So far, multiple biomarkers have been shown to be sensitive to the diagnosis of AD and MCI, i.e., structural MR imaging (MRI) for brain atrophy measurement, functional imaging (e.g., FDG-PET) for hypometabolism quantification, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for quantification of specific proteins. However, most existing research focuses on only a single modality of biomarkers for diagnosis of AD and MCI, although recent studies have shown that different biomarkers may provide complementary information for the diagnosis of AD and MCI. In this paper, we propose to combine three modalities of biomarkers, i.e., MRI, FDG-PET, and CSF biomarkers, to discriminate between AD (or MCI) and healthy controls, using a kernel combination method. Specifically, ADNI baseline MRI, FDG-PET, and CSF data from 51AD patients, 99 MCI patients (including 43 MCI converters who had converted to AD within 18 months and 56 MCI non-converters who had not converted to AD within 18 months), and 52 healthy controls are used for development and validation of our proposed multimodal classification method. In particular, for each MR or FDG-PET image, 93 volumetric features are extracted from the 93 regions of interest (ROIs), automatically labeled by an atlas warping algorithm. For CSF biomarkers, their original values are directly used as features. Then, a linear support vector machine (SVM) is adopted to evaluate the classification accuracy, using a 10-fold cross-validation. As a result, for classifying AD from healthy controls, we achieve a classification accuracy of 93.2% (with a sensitivity of 93% and a specificity of 93.3%) when combining all three modalities of biomarkers, and only 86.5% when using even the best individual modality of biomarkers. Similarly, for classifying MCI from healthy controls, we achieve a classification accuracy of 76.4% (with a sensitivity of 81.8% and a specificity of 66%) for our combined method, and only 72% even using the best individual modality of biomarkers. Further analysis on MCI sensitivity of our combined method indicates that 91.5% of MCI converters and 73.4% of MCI non-converters are correctly classified. Moreover, we also evaluate the classification performance when employing a feature selection method to select the most discriminative MR and FDG-PET features. Again, our combined method shows considerably better performance, compared to the case of using an individual modality of biomarkers.
Authors:
Daoqiang Zhang; Yaping Wang; Luping Zhou; Hong Yuan; Dinggang Shen;
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.     Date:  2011-01-12
Journal Detail:
Title:  NeuroImage     Volume:  55     ISSN:  1095-9572     ISO Abbreviation:  Neuroimage     Publication Date:  2011 Apr 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-03-07     Completed Date:  2011-06-28     Revised Date:  2012-09-24    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9215515     Medline TA:  Neuroimage     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  856-67     Citation Subset:  IM    
Copyright Information:
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. dqzhang@nuaa.edu.cn
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Algorithms
Alzheimer Disease / cerebrospinal fluid,  classification*,  pathology
Biological Markers
Cognition Disorders / cerebrospinal fluid,  classification*,  pathology
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
Positron-Emission Tomography
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
EB006733/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS; EB008374/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS; EB009634/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS; MH088520/MH/NIMH NIH HHS; R01 EB006733-01A2/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS; R01 EB008374-01A2/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS; RC1 MH088520-01/MH/NIMH NIH HHS; U01 AG024904/AG/NIA NIH HHS
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Biological Markers
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